The Great Dictator (Criterion Collection) G
Once again - the whole world laughs!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2011
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paulette Goddard, Paul Weigel, Henry Daniell, Charlie Chaplin, Hank Mann, Grace Hayle, Reginald Gardiner, Jack Oakie, Maurice Moscovich, Billy Gilbert, Carter DeHaven, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey & Chester Conklin | |
Directed by | Charlie Chaplin | |
Edited by | Willard Nico | |
Composition by | Meredith Willson | |
Cinematography by | Rollie Totheroh & Karl Struss | |
Art Direction by | J. Russell Spencer | |
Produced by | Charlie Chaplin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Like all major Chaplin works, Dictator was a cheaply, but methodically, made film, a cardboard act of humanist defiance, and, thanks to its purity of purpose, the cheesier the jokes get, the harder they land.
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Village Voice
The only trouble is that such perfect scenes as this are followed by more conventional passages which would be funny enough in an average picture but let one down in a film that deals so ambitiously with so great a theme.
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The Nation
The first full-blown talkie from the biggest star of the silent era, complete with a message that Chaplin couldn't have sent more loudly or clearly.
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Film.com
Through no fault of Chaplin's, during the two years he was at work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy.
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TIME Magazine
It's when he is playing the dictator that the comedian's voice raises the value of the comedy content of the picture to great heights.
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Variety
[W]ith several immaculately realised sequences of pure visual comedy of which the globe-dance is merely the most iconic.
Sight and Sound Critic
The representation of Hitler is vaudeville goonery all the way, but minus the acid wit and inventive energy that Groucho Marx managed.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" with a globe, and a cream cake fight between Hynkel and Napoloni, the dictator of Bacteria.
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- Sales Rank: 39,909
- UPC: 715515080712
- Shipping Weight: 0.33/lbs (approx)
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